This essay describes a German codex now held by Princeton University's Library. Dated to 1424, the book was owned by the convent of St. Catherine in Nuremberg and held in its library (medieval shelf mark-L XV). The essay argues that the book functioned as a book of hours, a genre understood as more flexible in the German context. Owned by Kunigund Schreiberin before she took vows (1429), the book also offers a specific example of medieval lay women's devotional practice.
This article presents a project to record medieval medical texts in the `Handschriftencensus' and provides the resulting inventory list. It also documents the methodological approach used to deal with problems in determining the titles of works and their authorship, as well as in cataloguing the manuscript tradition, as a foundation for future surveying projects.
Codex I F 710 of the Breslau University Library contains a Latin excerpt and a German oration that problematise George of Podiebrad's coronation as King of Bohemia. This article examines the way in which both texts draw on Nikolaus Tempelfeld's treatise `Ordo nature et racionis'. In doing so, they reveal themselves to be products of scholarly rhetorical practice in a contemporary religious conflict.
In 1618, Daniel Sudermann compiled an inventory of his unpublished manuscripts of the 14th to 16th centuries, containing primarily works of Upper Rhenish mysticism in German, and of his more recent manuscripts, containing works by Caspar Schwenckfeld and his first followers. This inventory was sent to the Elector of Brandenburg and to Duke August of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, with the hope that both princes would arrange the publication of the unedited works.
Handwritten sources (books, rotuli, maps, etc.) from late antiquity, the Middle Ages and early modern period, spanning well beyond the invention of printing, are not just unique cultural objects, but form an essential foundation for historical research. Not only the accessibility of "manuscript" resources, which continues to be of essential importance, but also the availability of the content preserved in them is of fundamental importance for any research into the pre-modern era. Digitisation, artificial intelligence and methods of materials science are revolutionising how we research and exploration manuscript sources and forcing the development of a joint strategy with a view towards both the activities of archival institutions and those of scholarly actors. Neither side has developed valid and active structures for the mutual recognition and coordination of ongoing progress in these fields. As the first major forum for exchange between research in the humanities, materials science and the natural sciences on the one hand and archival institutions on the other, the conference highlighted problems and areas for action in this digital and AI-dominated age that require better mutual awareness and interaction between the different actors involved. The conference was not the place to develop solutions, but rather to consider the prospects for future cooperation, which are presented in the form of thesis statements.
This paper examines the textual form of knowledge transfer between the Low German area and Russia during the late 15th to the first half of the 16th century. The four texts under consideration were either translated from the Low German-as the `Lucidarius, `Garden of health' and several items from the Lubeck edition of `The new calendar'- or exhibit clear signs of Low German interference-as the `Destillierbuch'.
